The Team Comes to Play in Nepal
Similar to the television series that are currently broadcast in Kenya, Liberia, DR Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Palestine and Congo, “Hamro Team” will debut this month in Nepal. The Nepali version of the series was featured in Wave magazine, a magazine popular with both young people in the country and with the diaspora community. “Hamro Team” (Our Team) is about the unique members of a football team and the challenges they face to productively work together despite their differences in a post-conflict environment. Following a period of armed conflict known as the ten-year civil war, a democratic revolution led to the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement between the two conflicting sides, the Government of Nepal and the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoists). Nepal still faces challenges ahead as the country works through post-conflict reconstruction.
Hamro Team has an important message but is presented in an entertaining format intertwined with comedy and romance. In this version of the series, the idea of gender equality is embodied in the all-male team’s female coach. When Director Bhusan Dahal is asked why the coach is female, his response is, “Why not?”
“Abinash, one of the three talented scriptwriters says: Hamro Team has more than 15 major characters from different backgrounds and ethnicities. Maintaining the differences and uniqueness of the personalities while uniting them in their specific aim was the toughest part of the writing process. However, I really feel like I’ve grown up as a writer while writing this serial.”
Read the rest of the article at Wave Magazine.
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